Sounds a lot like King St Newtown, but the best the NSW regime can come up with for King St is turning it into a forced, 24 hr clearway traffic sewer choked with the runoff from their Westconnex disaster.
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> On 21 Jun 2017, at 4:00 pm, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
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> On 21/06/2017 2:28 PM, Greg Sutherlandgregsutherland@... mailto:gregsutherland@ozemail.com.au [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-21/jogger-beats-tram-in-race-down-melbourne-sydney-road/8637564 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-21/jogger-beats-tram-in-race-down-melbourne-sydney-road/8637564
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> Sydney Rd is a great strip of road.
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> In a couple of km you can travel the world in cuisine, retail stores and people.
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> It has a full time 40km / hr speed limit and in the unlikely event of being detected exceeding that limit, a very viable defence would be "It's impossible to go over 40 km/hr in Sydney Rd."
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> This is the road where a previous goverment considered taking out the trams and putting them up the parallel train line (the trains would have gone!).
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> The 'Revitalise Sydney Rd' group have got it right: Ban parking, but retain the 40km/hr speed limit so that the road remains pedestrian and cycle friendly.
> It accounts for a large proportion of bicycle accidents in Melbourne - partly because of the traffic and partly because of the intense pattern of bicycle use in Brunswick. Many locals do their supermarket shopping by bicycle and even tow their kids around in bicycle trailers.
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> I'm sure a lot of the retailers and hospitality operators would agree as they can see the potential for this strip. However, the 'retailers association' which is likely to be dominated by old guard shopkeepers can't accept that the people who park in Sydney Rd actually drive away customers, so they are opposed to loss of on-street parking.
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> There's already a lot of off street parking - never difficult to find a car park ... just difficult to get to it along Sydney Rd!
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> The site at: http://www.sydneyroad.org/ http://www.sydneyroad.org/ is worth a look.
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> Mal Rowe - just across the creek from the People's Republic of Moreland (who are the local Govt responsible for Sydney Rd)
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